Pole vault legend and Ukraine's Olympic Committee president thanks the European Olympic Committee family for its support.

Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko calls out Seoul 1988 boxer Roy Jones Jr. on his past Russian support.

High jumper Maria Lasitskene makes a plea for Russian athletes be allowed to return to the track. Vocal Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has thoughts.

Hurdler Devon Allen looks to his future NFL career with NBC Sports: "My job is going to be the fast guy".

Triple Olympic hammer throw champion Anita Wlodarczyk is a crime fighter, too.

"So it's like I'm not scared anymore." Liberian sprinter Joseph Fahnbulleh uses his Tokyo 2020 experience to power to two NCAA championships.

English sprinter Dina Asher-Smith looks ahead to a home crowd experience at the Commonwealth Games this summer.

"I'm going to push for equality on all fronts." Sprinter Allyson Felix looks beyond her last year on the track.

Controversial fencer Alen Hadzic cleared to compete for Team USA in a limited capacity while still under abuse investigation.

Freeskier Nico Porteous intends to "use his time wisely" as he recovers from injury and ponders what next challenges to conquer in his career.

FINA has a quick Q&A with Team Italy veteran goalkeeper Marco del Lungo ahead of a title defense at the soon-to-come World Championships.

What's the drama around India's table tennis team selection for the upcoming Commonwealth Games?

Might basketball superstar LeBron James one day be an NBA team owner?

Fellow Olympic and NBA basketball star Dwyane Wade weighs in on recent gun violence in U.S. schools.

Who are 30 basketball players to watch at the upcoming Asia World Cup?

Is "Top Gun" fueling Team Canada's Sara Swiderski performance at the U18 ice hockey worlds?

Megan Hull hopes that Team New Zealand's lessons from Tokyo 2020 give momentum for improvement at this summer's field hockey World Cup.

Want to help make sure women's Nordic combined makes it into the Winter Olympics, and ensure equality on the Games' sports program?

Tek Coaching Series: Triple softball Olympian Lauren Regula gives back to her hometown.

2022's 'Best Young European Winter Athlete' is ski jumper Nika Prevc.

Who are the fifteen athlete recipients of Team Ireland's Paris Scholarships intended to help fund Paris 2024 ambitions?

Tokyo 2020 Olympic tennis player Liam Broady offers his perspective on equality for Pride Month.

'Becoming a Boss': Tennis.com ​ features Italian star Matteo Berrettini.

Two-time Olympic golfer Minjee Lee reflects on the impact of her recent historic win - and payout.

Soccer double Olympic medalist Deanne Rose gets a hometown honor in New Tecumseth.

Meanwhile, soccer super star - and Beijing 2008 Olympian - Cristiano Ronaldo gets major legal relief through a technicality.

Olympic figure skater Jorik Hendrickx has transitioned nicely into coaching since his 2018 retirement.

Can Aline Freiss make herself a 'sure bet' for Team France gymnastics at Paris 2024?

Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk is focused ahead.

Jutta Leerdam is an Elle covergirl.

Saeid Mollaei has a day at the beach.

Anna Gasser dives in.

Eric Radford is on vacation...and I spy Guillaume Cizeron, too...

The Ukrainian table tennis community has been receiving support during the Russian invasion at home from the #TableTennisUnited fund from the ITTF and WTT.

Beijing 2008 gymnasts Chellsie Memmel and Alicia Sacramone win roles inside USA Gymnastics. (Memmel's appointment getting some scrutiny...)

Three-time Olympic skeleton racer John Daly officially joins the Suffolk County Hall of Fame.

The Athletes' Commission for the Canadian Olympic Committee has four new members, including short track speed skater Kim Boutin, Alpine skier Phil Brown, freeskier Philippe Marquis, and snowboarder Mercedes Nicoll.

Olympic shooter Anna Korakaki goes raw in an emotional post sharing the damage from a past stalker.

Forbes Asia names its 'Under 30' class for 2022, with 17 Olympic sport athletes included: freestyle skier Eileen Gu, archer An San, fencer Cheung Ka Long, swimmer Kyle Chalmers, surfer Kanoa Igarashi, and many more from badminton, skateboarding, basketball, speed skating, snowboarding, boxing, diving, golf, and gymnastics.

NBA star Rudy Gobert confirms plans to compete with Team France at EuroBasket this summer: "We want to make even more history".

Team Great Britain boxer Lewis Richardson is 'desperate' get his career back on track after the pandemic disruptions, starting with the European Championships.

The Wall Street Journal: Team USA soccer star Alex Morgan and other female athletes 'are fighting for more financial control - and winning'.

More soccer: Team Sweden's Caroline Seger has been able to move on from Olympic heartbreak to her 'finest hour' of her long career.

Count Tokyo 2020 medalist Ahmed ElGendy as another modern pentathlon star who's against the proposed changes to the sport.

Ice hockey star Hilary Knight discusses 'the weight of representing a sport', and more, with The Athletic. (paywall)

Jai Hindley accomplishes the history he couldn't make two years ago, as the first Australian to win the Giro d'Italia road cycling tour.

South African-Italian shot putter Zane Weir reflects on 'the true meaning of success' in Spikesi.

Cindy Ngamba's progression in the recent Women's World Boxing Championships helped showcase the 'Fight for a Chance' program assisting displaced athletes.

Kevin Quintero has been 'showing the best version of himself' as track cycling competition and scheduling continues to settle post-pandemic.

New Zealand trampolinist Dylan Schmidt shows how a new blood test model works in anti-doping.

Beach volleyball stars Tri Bourne and Taylor Crabb dissect that scene from the original Top Gun movie.

BBC checks in with BMX champion Beth Shriever on how her career has changed since her surprise Olympic title.

Biathlon World checks in with recently retired athletes Amanda Lightfoot and Scott Gow as they adjust to a different 'off-season'.

Team USA: 'Patience and perspective' have been the key to Natalia Grossman's rise in sport climbing.

Rising 20-year-old Katie Volynets is one to watch as she looks to have 'no holes' as a tennis player.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has a scare inside Brooklyn's Barclays Center during a mass panic.

Fellow tennis Olympian Simona Halep shares her own mental health struggles during her recent French Open experience.

ISU looks back at the figure skaters who called time on their careers at the end of this past season.

Alexandros Papanastasiou followed his father into water polo, but is taking Team Greece further with Olympic success and eyes on maintaining momentum.

Tokyo 2020 breakout rugby sevens star Marcos Moneta talks about his career and a memorable last year with World Rugby.

"But I have no fear of the enemy." Youth Olympic champion biathlete Kristina Dmitrenko joins the Ukrainian National Guard to defend her country from invasion.

Tennis' world number one women's player Iga Swiatek still has the Ukraine crisis on her mind.

Atlanta 1996 Olympic champions Lilia Podkopayeva and Rustam Sharipov are amongst the Ukrainian gymnasts working to support their countrymen from abroad during the current war.

More International Gymnast: Nuriman Kurbanov is "still at the stage of finding the golden mean" in his rising career.

Champion speed skater Erin Jackson on adjusting to life after her Beijing 2022 success: "...people don't care a whole lot once the Olympics are over".

More speed skating: Sverre Lunde Pedersen launches his 'Best Again' YouTube series following his journey over the next two years of competition.

Olympic medalists Petra Kvitova and Barbora Krejcikova join fellow Czech tennis stars Karolina Pliskova and Martina Navratilova as Vogue 'Leaders' cover models.

Double Olympic medalist Takaharu Furukawa feels fit ahead of his return to World Cup archery competition after a long layoff.

Tokyo 2020 champion Joe Choong and other (modern) Pentathlon United athletes ask for decision-making transparency from their sport's governing body, again.

Figure skaters Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker discuss their upcoming Stars on Ice run, upcoming changes in ice dance for the next season, and more.

Statistics, data science, and guitar lessons...Tokyo 2020 figure skating champion Nathan Chen plans a return to Yale.

Fencer Ryan Choi Chun-Yin is back feeling in positive form, and earning pop boy-band praise.

Track cycling superstars Jason and Laura Kenny highlight the Olympic names on the British royal honors roll as they become a knight and dame, respectively.

The soccer stars of the USWNT take the fight for pay equity a big step forward.

Charlotte Kalla's cross country skiing exploits highlight a royal celebration of Sweden's Olympians.

Four-time Olympic judoka Sabrina Filzmoser successfully scales Mount Everest.

"I love how being strong feels." Weightlifter Hayley Whiting eyes the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

Weightlifters Parisa Jahanfekrian and Jekta Jamali join other Iranian athletes defecting to Germany.

Trampolinist Ryusei Nishioka is eager for more after a "brazen show of daring" in his first World Championships last year.

Nordic combined star Mario Seidl catches up with FIS to recap the 2021/22 season, his spring break,  his optimism, and more.

Double Olympic basketball champion Candace Parker's career gets a 'Pride 50' look from Queerty.

Triple Olympic champion luger Johannes Ludwig retires.

Road cyclist Biniam Girmay makes history as the first Black African to win a Grand Tour stage. Congrats!

Get to know rising track sprinter Clarence Munyai, courtesy of Team South Africa.

Can sprinter Brianna Lyston put her young career 'setbacks' behind her at this summer's World Athletics U20 Championships?

Cuban national volleyball player Ailama Cese Montalvo faces racial abuse...from her own coach in Russia.

Collegiate sprinter Julien Alfred gets a 'shout out' from the president of the St Lucia Athletics Association.

One to watch: Teenager Gary Martin is the fastest high school-race miler in 57 years.

Team Great Britain: Canoeist Kimberley Woods 'speaks with clarity and candor on a relationship with mental health that has been choppy for as long as she can remember'.

​Tokyo 2020 champion rowers Lucy Stephan, Jessica Morrison, Rosie Popa, diver Annabelle Smith, and shooter Elena Galiabovitch amongst the honorees for the Victorian Institute Sports Awards.

Great Britain's 'most-decorated diver' Tom Daley shares thoughts on his "Coming up for Air" memoir.

​Despite a 'trophy cabinet bursting with medals', Spanish water polo player eyes to continue through this year's World Championships and possibly Paris 2024.

A "mentally drained" Elina Svitolina speaks on mental health and the impact the war in her native Ukraine has had on her as the Tokyo 2020 tennis medalist considers when to return to competition.

The injured daughter of slain water polo player Eugine Obedinskiy gets a hospital visit from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Olympic champion rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva included in sanctions against Russian figures with ties to Vladimir Putin.

The International Judo Federation comes through again to support youth athletes looking for relief from the war in Ukraine.

More from Inside the Games: ​London 2012 Olympic boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk's new charitable foundation aims to assist his civilian countrymen as Ukraine suffers through Russia's war.

Athens 2004 medalist and world boxing champion Amir Khan announces his retirement.

Slovenian Olympic basketball player Luka Doncic joins the 700-NBA playoffs-points club in quick fashion.

The news for Team USA's Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia on dubious charges, doesn't get better.

Tokyo 2020 gold medalist boxer Kellie Harrington to be awarded a 'Freedom of Dublin City' honor.

Get to know 2022 U.S. field hockey Hall of Fame inductee and Olympian Lauren Crandall Liska.

While she contemplates a possible run at Milano Cortina 2026, short track speed skater Elise Christie is focusing on scooter racing. (really)

The friendly rivalry between triathletes Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde leans into sportsmanship.

Former youth gymnast tells CNN how she quit the sport at age 13 due to "straight up child abuse".

Albanian gymnast Matvei Petrov considers 'perfection' may be the key to ultimate competitive success

Ilia Malinin lands a quadruple axel? Figure skating will "have to update their scale of values very soon".

Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus and coach Dean Boxall reflect on Tokyo 2020 and what's next as the swimmer is "just in a different headspace" now.

More news from Australia swimming...super star Emma McKeon lands in the gossip pages with a connection to pop star (and once Olympic hopeful) Cody Simpson.

Nhat Nguyen talks with Team Ireland on his transition from Vietnam to Ireland and his rise in badminton.

​Is soccer superstar and Beijing 2008 gold medalist Lionel Messi the 'posterboy of sportswashing'?

Track & field Olympic medalist Gwen Torrance puts in her opinion on the status of Florence Griffith-Joyner's sprint world records in the era of today's marks.

Rio 2016 pole vaulting surprise medalist Eliza McCartney has had to 'reset' as she bounces back from injury woes and looks ahead to regain competitive form.

Olympic marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk shares thoughts on motherhood as an elite athlete.

Sprint hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson shares her struggles with 'rock-bottom' mental health issues.

Cocaine scandal-plagued Leon Reid has his funding reviewed after initial approval for the Irish sprinter.

Evening Standard: Sprinter Dina Asher-Smith is 'harder, better, faster, stronger'.

'He's just going to have to run a lot faster now.' After that Tokyo 2020 race, hurdler Rai Benjamin reflects on still wanting to be the fastest hurdler on the track.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame class for 2022 includes Olympic medalists Hayley Wickenheiser (ice hockey), Adam van Koeverden (canoeing), and Tricia Smith (rowing).

"I've had so many fantastic experiences and races." Multiple Olympic medal-winning canoeist David Florence calls it a career.

Team Great Britain shooter Kirsty Hegarty is 'herself again' after a disappointing Tokyo 2020 appearance.

Anamarija Lampic announces a pending switch from cross country skiing to biathlon. (in Slovenian)

Tennis star Naomi Osaka doubles down on mental health awareness with a Modern Health partnership and also takes charge of some business affairs.

Tennis champion and Olympic bronze medalist Novak Djokoic joins an exclusive 1,000-win club.

Bobsledder Josh Williamson makes a Keep the Flame Alive podcast appearance to discuss Beijing 2022.

Freestyle skiing champion Eileen Gu walks the catwalk for Louis Vuitton.